Ascents of Zoncolan

Made it through the hard stuff then a silly mistake had me airborne right at the top! Skipping the broken crux hold is beta

Great line. Sustained crimping goodness. Should go quick if I can get back on it.

Sustained crimpers, just what the doctor ordered. Feel good on this, though I doubt cutting feet is orthodox beta

Draws + recruiting 1st burn. Got down to 2 sits on the second and 1 sit on the last. It goes... if I had more time in the mountains.

Dialled beta and linked moves around the crux. Punted on the second burn hitting the broken hold, latched it then the top layer turned to sand and I was in the air. Shoes are bust.

Warmed up hanging draws to the first independent bolt. Found this similar in difficulty to sado but prefered the style. Crux hold that broke is still crumbling.

Got a new high point on the 4th go. Need to commit to the beta at the spooky draw, and need more endurance and fresh skin.

Crux was pulling on the crumbling hold

Holy fuck that felt good

Draw hang

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1 sit on the last tie in. Fell quite early, then did basically all of the business to the top in one link, with the sun in my eyes. Promising

Is this the 1993 Bill Murray comedy classic Groundhog Day? Another bunch of good attempts, but also quite numb a few times.

Low expectation lap in the sun went about as expected. However! I realised I can make the last move more secure by changing the order of things.

Fell at the slot crimp, don't think I looked at it before going for it.

Oh my days, made it to the last hard move again and even hit the next hold, but my right foot popped.

1x warm up, 3x 2-3ish hangs dialling in all the moves. Linked through the little two finger pocket at the start of the business on the last attempt of the day but was muoy pumped afterwards. Psyched

New high point, unfortunately at the last hard move. Hands were numb at the slopey rest and it felt like I was spending endurance warming them back up.

Fell quite low when I screwed something up. But made it to the top from the second bolt of zonc. This thing is soo close!

All the moves but boy oh boy

Draw hanging, I keep finding better foot beta for various sequences

New high-point at the bolt below the rest locking off to the right-hand slot crimp.

Thirsty helped me skip some hand faff in a lower sequence. Coming together nicely. Same high point, but should be able to get through this to the rest next session.

Draw hanging lap. Quite cold, didn't pull many of the hard moves.

Numbing out, gah

New highpoint, then dogged the shit out of it to the top. In with a shot at this if connies aren't too cold/warm lol

Forgot about a footer in the low crux, got too extended and had to let go. Bother

My style of route. Got 3/4 of the way up 2nd shot

Managed all of the moves on the intro lap. Mind was blown by how sustained the route is as soon as you leave reigning steel. Second lap had a foot slip in the early crux and linked to the top in a few sits and refined some beta. Could see this going with a bit of effort. Keen!

I got to second bolt and rain came

4th shot of the day. Went up with new beta from Ben and zero expectations, which seemed to do the trick. Both me and my forearms were screaming before it was over.

Kinda difficult to grade, because the moves aren't individually very challenging but the crimping is so so sustained. I was trying bloody hard though, so I'm gonna take a soft 28!